Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Christmas of the Winter Blast

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Thanks to the Arctic blast that hit most of the country, yesterday was not only the coldest day of the year, it was one of the coldest ...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Christmas Eve Morn Slapjacks and More

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The Arctic blast that froze most of the country yesterday spared us its worst — no power outage, no frozen water pipes, and no pro...
Friday, December 23, 2022

UFOs Over Greensboro

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For at least a couple of decades, the residents of Greensboro’s  Sunset Hills neighborhood have gone to town filling the sky with colo...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Unhinged... Again!

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It’s sad, but it sure feels like my old hometown is also home to a disproportionate share of unfortunate, not altogether stable in...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas!

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In the Gotta Do It Department : Plug my 2022 book releases for the holidays. These really are great gifts that will chill you year-r...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Experiment in Terror

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I always enjoy putting up the Christmas decorations at the old homestead, a.k.a. Pleasant Hill, in Martinsville, but this year is...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

A Wild Western Adventure Rooted in Medieval Legend

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Guns of the Waste Land: Departure by Leverett Butts The first of four books in author Leverett Butts’s Guns of the Waste Land series,...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

“Country of the Snake” — Recommended Reading

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I’m very pleased to learn that editor Ellen Datlow  has included my short story, “ Country of the Snake ” ( Fright Train, Haverhill Pr...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

A Merry Michigan Thanksgiving

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It’s only been a couple of months since Ms. B. and I visited Michigan to see her parents and ramble about the Upper Peninsula (“ Cluste...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Spirits of Appalaccia and More

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Due to our hectic pre-Halloween schedule, we ended up making our traditional Fall excursion to the Blue Ridge Parkway  a bit late this ...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Owl Rock Revisited and I Say, Are You Blind?!

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I’m sure it’s plain to those of you who pop by to visit now and again that many of my blogs are primarily for me to record events that ...